Mike Cantolina
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I planted beets, carrots, lettuce, spinach, swiss chard & snap peas in the in-ground garden today. It's a little early for some but won't be much trouble to replant if they don't make it.
This is the garlic, potato onions & leeks I planted in January:
It's pretty hard to see but there's spinach and swiss chard coming up in this bed:
And I bought one of the small harbor freight greenhouses so I'm experimenting some with that:
all i see are red x' blocks?
we generally seed May 15-30, I already planted some peas I started in the house and some bare root strawberries I picked up a BJs wholesale club. Last year I put in 4 4x8 raised beds and they fed the local wildlife nicely, we only harvested some lettuce. Once I purchased the materials for the beds and the topsoil to fill them I just didn't have any money left to spend on a fence. This year I have a fence in the works. I scrounged some nearly new coated wire welded fence out of the dumpster at the transfer station, I salvaged some fence U posts from an old orchard, and I purchased 1 roll of 5'x100' wire welded fence ($100). I'm happy I got most of it for free otherwise it would have cost me around $350. I wanted to make the fenced in area large enough to add more beds down the road.
I plan on planting
squash Zucchini, yellow, butternut, and spaghetti
lettuce red leaf and butter crisp
peppers bell, Itailian fryer, cherry hot, and Long hot
peas
bush beans
beets
carrots
tomatoes plum and cherry
corn
herbs parsley, basil, oregano, mint, and maybe some others
watermelon
strawberries
maybe a few blueberry bushes
thornless black berries
I thought i'd post some updated picts to my "back" garden picts. above...
I have 4 kinds of peppers,
Watermellons are doing great,
I planted a few hills of Yukon Gold potatoes this year,
Also my two kinds of tomatoes that are my fav's.,
I also have a "front" garden spot,
The sweet corn is about 5' high right now,
I also have brocholi, garlic, peppers, tomatoes, beans, pea's ect...
SR
I guess i'll bump this up with another garden update, everything is growing like crazy......here's the front garden,
Many of the tomato plants are 6' tall and all are loading up with tomatoes,
I've been eating brocholi, i have some real nice heads already,
Here's the grn beans,
The first planting of sweetcorn is 7' tall and is loaded with ears,
and i'm are getting nice peppers, here's the anaheims,
Watermellon plants are loaded too!
Well, that's it for today!
SR
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